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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Clinical predictors of prognosis in stroke patients after endovascular therapy
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Open AccessClinical predictors of prognosis in stroke patients after endovascular therapy
Endovascular therapy (EVT) is effective in the treatment of large vascular occlusive stroke. However, many factors are associated with the outcomes of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) after EVT. This study aimed to...
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Open AccessComparison of the accuracy of 9 intraocular lens power calculation formulas after SMILE in Chinese myopic eyes
As of 2021, over 2.8 million small-incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) procedures have been performed in China. However, knowledge regarding the selection of intraocular lens (IOL) power calculation formula ...
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Open AccessTraining large-scale optoelectronic neural networks with dual-neuron optical-artificial learning
Optoelectronic neural networks (ONN) are a promising avenue in AI computing due to their potential for parallelization, power efficiency, and speed. Diffractive neural networks, which process information by pr...
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Open AccessGraph matching and deep neural networks based whole heart and great vessel segmentation in congenital heart disease
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the leading causes of mortality among birth defects, and due to significant variations in the whole heart and great vessel, automatic CHD segmentation using CT images h...
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Open AccessNetwork pharmacology to explore the mechanism of scutellarin in the treatment of brain ischaemia and experimental verification of JAK2/STAT3 signalling pathway
Scutellarin is used to treat brain ischaemia. However, its underlying mechanism of action remains unclear. This study aimed to elucidate the potential mechanism of action of scutellarin in brain ischaemia thro...
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Open AccessSetd2 supports GATA3+ST2+ thymic-derived Treg cells and suppresses intestinal inflammation
Treg cells acquire distinct transcriptional properties to suppress specific inflammatory responses. Transcription characteristics of Treg cells are regulated by epigenetic modifications, the mechanism of which...
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Open AccessHigh-speed three-dimensional photoacoustic computed tomography for preclinical research and clinical translation
Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) has generated increasing interest for uses in preclinical research and clinical translation. However, the imaging depth, speed, and quality of existing PACT systems hav...
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Open AccessBVES downregulation in non-syndromic tetralogy of fallot is associated with ventricular outflow tract stenosis
BVES is a transmembrane protein, our previous work demonstrated that single nucleotide mutations of BVES in tetralogy of fallot (TOF) patients cause a downregulation of BVES transcription. However, the relationsh...
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Population flow drives spatio-temporal distribution of COVID-19 in China
Sudden, large-scale and diffuse human migration can amplify localized outbreaks of disease into widespread epidemics1–4. Rapid and accurate tracking of aggregate population flows may therefore be epidemiologicall...
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Open AccessSound-driven single-electron transfer in a circuit of coupled quantum rails
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) strongly modulate the shallow electric potential in piezoelectric materials. In semiconductor heterostructures such as GaAs/AlGaAs, SAWs can thus be employed to transfer individua...
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Open AccessMechanism of Interleukin-4 Reducing Lipid Deposit by Regulating Hormone-Sensitive Lipase
Accumulating evidence indicates that inflammation participates in the pathophysiological progress from insulin resistance, obesity, metabolic abnormalities, and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Our previous study rev...
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Open AccessMagnetostructural transformation and magnetocaloric effect of Sn-bonded Mn0.66Fe0.34Ni0.66Fe0.34Si0.66Ge0.34 composite
Magnetostructural coupling in MnMX (M = Co or Ni, X = Si or Ge) system attracts considerable attention for the accompanied multi-magnetoresponsive effects. However, due to the large stress generated from the s...
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Open AccessLysosomal activity maintains glycolysis and cyclin E1 expression by mediating Ad4BP/SF-1 stability for proper steroidogenic cell growth
The development and differentiation of steroidogenic organs are controlled by Ad4BP/SF-1 (adrenal 4 binding protein/steroidogenic factor 1). Besides, lysosomal activity is required for steroidogenesis and also...
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Open AccessElastic and mechanical softening in boron-doped diamond
Alternative approaches to evaluating the hardness and elastic properties of materials exhibiting physical properties comparable to pure diamond have recently become necessary. The classic linear relationship b...
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Open AccessMicroRNA miR-204 and miR-1236 inhibit hepatitis B virus replication via two different mechanisms
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major human pathogen. In this study, we found that miR-204 and miR-1236 were down-regulated in HBV-producing cells, and each could suppress HBV replication. Using a bioinformatic a...
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Open AccessLarge-scale identification of small noncoding RNA with strand-specific deep sequencing and characterization of a novel virulence-related sRNA in Brucella melitensis
Brucella is the causative agent of brucellosis, a worldwide epidemic zoonosis. Small noncoding RNAs (sRNAs) are important modulators of gene expression and involved in pathogenesis and stress adaptation of Brucel...
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Open AccessErratum: Structural isomerism in gold nanoparticles revealed by X-ray crystallography
Nature Communications 6: Article number: 8667 (2015); Published: 20 October 2015; Updated: 17 November 2015. The original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of isomerism in the title of...
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Open AccessStructural isomerism in gold nanoparticles revealed by X-ray crystallography
Revealing structural isomerism in nanoparticles using single-crystal X-ray crystallography remains a largely unresolved task, although it has been theoretically predicted with some experimental clues. Here we ...
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Open AccessLarge-Scale Molecular Simulations on the Mechanical Response and Failure Behavior of a defective Graphene: Cases of 5–8–5 Defects
Understanding the effect of defects on mechanical responses and failure behaviors of a graphene membrane is important for its applications. As examples, in this paper, a family of graphene with various 5–8–5 d...